A medieval English birth girdle, an amulet offering protection for women during childbirth. It's inscribed with protective prayers, charms and other talismans.
You can consult the entire MS online now! (Harley Roll T 11)
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Thank you! This image is from a copy of Boccaccio's Des cas de nobles hommes et femmes: Add MS 35321, f. 4v (The construction of the Tower of Babel).
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A boar and its harp shall never be parted.
BL Harley 6563; Book of Hours; c.1320 CE-c.1330 CE; England, S. E. (London); f.41v @blmedieval.bsky.social
Is it Easter yet?
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@blmedieval.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social Add 49622, f. 56r
A marginal figure drags an omitted portion of text into place in this copy of Thomas Hoccleve's Regiment of Princes (Arundel MS 38).
'Wynflaed's Will', the earliest surviving woman's will in British history, made in the 940s. Its bequests include tapestries, jewelry, bedclothes and books for her daughter Æthelflæd.
Cotton Ch VIII 38
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How to Train Your Dragon 🐉🐉
Peraldus' Theological Miscellany, 1236-c.1250 (Harley MS 3244, f. 59r)
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Newly restored online: Leonardo da Vinci's Notebook, also known as the Codex Arundel (Arundel MS 263), written in his characteristic mirror-writing with diagrams, drawings, brief texts, and personal notes.
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"To run through better waters the little ship of my wit now hoists its sails, leaving behind it a sea so cruel, and I will sing of that second realm..." Canto 1 Purgatorio
BL Yates Thompson MS 36; Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia; 15th century; Italy, N; f.65r
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A few folios from the Bodmin Gospels (Add MS 9381), a 9th-century Breton Gospel-book that was brought to Bodmin in Cornwall by the end of the 10th century. It's notable for its added manumissions, documents recording the free of slaves.
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We don't currently have a timeline on it being available again, but more digitised manuscripts are being restored later in the year and we will post with updates.
The Luttrell family sit down for dinner, from the Luttrell Psalter (Add MS 42130)
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The Basilisk: don't look into its eyes! 🙈
BL Royal MS 12 C XIX; Bestiary; c 1200-c 1210 CE; England; f.63r
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The earliest independent map of Scotland, from John Hardyng's Chronicle (Lansdowne MS 204)
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Monday!
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@blmedieval.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social Stowe 17, f. 185r
Murderous bunny rabbits from the margins of the Smithfield Decretals 🐇🐇🐇
c. 1300-1340, Royal MS 10 E IV
Christine de Pizan before Reason, Rectitude, and Justice; and Christine with Reason building the Cité des Dames
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BL Harley 4431, f. 290r
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Hwaet! The Beowulf manuscript (Cotton MS Vitellius A XV) is now back online.
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